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Mike Nichols' life was a study in endurance. The celebrated director, who died Wednesday at 83, started off his Hollywood career with two groundbreaking works. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in 1966 shook up the prim film industry with its frank, lacerating portrait of a marriage, its adult dialogue and its engrossing theatricality. "The Graduate" in 1967 inspired generations with its witty look at a young man searching for meaning in a plastic culture. Nichols followed those classic with a notorious bomb, "Catch-22," in 1970. He later acknowledged that he knew everything was going wrong on the film, yet he bounced back the next year...

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Mike Nichols' life was a study in endurance.
The celebrated director, who died Wednesday at 83, started off his Hollywood career with two groundbreaking works. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in 1966 shook up the prim film industry with...

One of the true classics of American theater, "Death of a Salesman" opens Friday, Aug. 2, at Mad Cow Theatre. Arthur Miller's tale of failing salesman Willy Loman is the final production in Mad Cow's debut season at its new theater complex on...

From the moment Willy Loman enters the stage, the audience sees a man nearly defeated.
Actor Eric Zivot shuffles along, head bowed, shoulders stooped. This is a man at the end of his rope.
Moments later, as faithful wife Linda fusses around Willy, the...

After a year in its new complex on Church Street, Mad Cow Theatre feels right at home.
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I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman play Willy Loman on Broadway, and what I remember most is sheer exhaustion at the play's end.
A great and committed actor, he made you feel like you had lived "Death of a Salesman" with him.
At the curtain...

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The cause of death was acute drug intoxication, including heroin,...

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s New York apartment contained approximately 50 bags of heroin at the time of his death on Sunday, according to multiple media reports.Investigators also found used syringes and prescription drugs in the home of the 46-year-old...

NEW YORK -- Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the leading actors of his generation and winner of an Academy Award for his title role in the film "Capote," was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Sunday in what a

Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the most acclaimed character actors and ambitious performers of his generation, was found dead of an apparent drug overdose inside his New York apartment on Sunday, police said. He was 46.
A business...

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Sherman Hemsley, who was rooted in the minds of millions of television viewers as Archie Bunker's bombastic black neighbor, George Jefferson, in"All in the Family" and later as the star of his own long-running sitcom, "The Jeffersons,"...

In one of the pivotal scenes in "Death of a Salesman," the great Arthur Miller drama from 1949, Willy Loman, a single-company traveling salesman of some 36 years standing, must beg for his job from his old boss' son Howard, whom he remembers...